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Bloggers Unmasked

Kate — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:40:04 +0000

Bloggers Anonymous #4 was an overwhelming success. Social media junkies from all over the city descended upon Nourish Cafe last Thursday. Here are some shots taken throughout. Check out the full Flickr set here.

@uplandindy kept the beer (and conversation) flowing all night long.

@kylehodges1 aka DJ TwinPeaks manned the turntables.

IMA’s Top Blogger, Katie Neville graced us with her presence.

iPads in circulation. Always a people pleaser.

We’ve got a few ideas up our sleeve for the next BlogAnon. Until then, see you on the internets.

A Blogger’s Bucket List

Noelle Pulliam — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:17:32 +0000

I’m excited yet sad to say this will be my last IMA Blog post, for the foreseeable future. (If you haven’t noticed, most of us find it hard to stay away.) I’ll be transitioning into the world of motherhood and all things baby. Writing for this blog has been my outlet for creative energies and personal interests. But I didn’t get to share all of the intriguing, amusing, and strange ideas I’ve archived over the years. So I leave you with my blog bucket list (Please read with the voice of Morley Safer from 60 Minutes):

Throngs of museum security guards donate hair to Locks of Love
IMA race car art
Indianapolis Zoo’s Naturally Inspired Paint Out: My favorite elephant
Banana Republic’s 2008 ad campaign “The Art of Style: Captured Through Photography”
Blogger Swap 2010 call out
My senior thesis and why I believed new media was ruining the culture of Bhutan
Current state of the art market with an insider’s look from Sotheby’s Institute of Art professors
Corporate art in Indianapolis- What’s really hanging on the walls at Eli Lilly headquarters?
The Plaster Belly Trend: 3 Dimensional replicas of pregnancy (only $24.99)
How to get on the roof of the IMA, an in-depth investigation of the IMA Nuggets

The girl behind the Upland Brewing Co. Twitterfeed and the cool green key chains she gave away at Bloggers Anonymous
Micro-donations on the Blog. NPR does it well.
My life changing experience with Tara Donovan at the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati
Following up with Indianapolis City Ballet: What’s next?
“Synchronous Object for One Flat Thing, reproduced” Web site: Visualizing choreographic information in new ways
Why people don’t buy art: A recap of OnTheCusp.org’s summer 2009 survey results
Wilber takes on the Indianapolis Cultural Trail
The life of a content migrator and why I love/hate wiki
The making of an IMA Magazine cover (link coming soon)
IDADA: The Year Ahead
Sacred Spain: TAP tour survey trends, How did you rate the TAP experience?
moosh in indy. -The coolest mommy blogger I know

Thank you for reading!

Three is a Magic Number

Daniel Incandela — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:34:32 +0000

If you happen to be at the Indianapolis Museum of Art later today, say 5pm, you’ll have a chance of discovering Bloggers Anonymous. It’s our third event of BA, and something pretty different from what we typically do regarding technology. We’re actually meeting people face-to-face. At the IMA, we kind of dig technology and spend a lot of time developing digital projects, like this blog, ArtBabble, TAP and a million other things. We really love our work, but I guess there would be one draw back to what we do.

Hey, you get to hang out with me.

Draw back you say? Yes. We spend so much time interacting online, we never actually meet the people that read this blog, watch our videos, follow the IMA’s main site, or follow our tweets. There’s a disconnect of sorts and it’s something we struggle with constantly. We produce digital content to enhance our visitors experiences with art, artists and exhibitions. A lot of these people may never visit Indianapolis or the IMA. But what about our local audience? We care, we really do.

All museums care. And some are doing a great job of bridging the disconnect between the online and physical relationships. The ever impressive Wexner Center in Columbus, OH (my old stomping grounds) has been heavily involved in their local Social Media Cafe. Brooklyn Museum has pioneered the new model for museum membership with their 1stfans idea – a socially networked membership that brings visitors in to the museum. And the Mattress Factory uses Twitter brilliantly to uninstitutionalize an institution. Wex, BM & MF are heavily involved in new media projects and publishing online – but they too have addressed the same issue we’re contemplating – it would be great to meet some of you. (If there are other museums addressing this, I would love to hear from you).

So if you’re free this evening, stop by the IMA. You can meet some of the museum staff, listen to some music, grab a drink and if you really want, try out our new iPod Touch guide.

TAP into Sacred Spain

Did you think I wouldn’t end by mentioning some technology?

Bloggers Anonymous

Kate — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:25:50 +0000

Hello, my name is Kate… and I’m a social media addict. I blog, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Flickr…you name it. Whew. I feel better.

Lucky for me, social media has become an integral part of the way museums create an interactive experience for the museum visitor, especially here at the IMA.

That said, we at the IMA would like to invite all our blog readers and fellow bloggers to peel your eyes from the computer screens for one night, and put a face to the local blogs you love to read. (Don’t worry, we’ll have wi-fi so you can live-blog and tweet to your heart’s content!)

Come one, come all...

And now, just for fun, The top signs you have a Blogging Problem: {Comment below with your own (probably more) witty ‘top signs…’}

After 5 minutes of meeting someone you ask, “So… do you blog?”
You make plans and decision based on whether they are ‘blog-worthy’
You get more “approve this comment” e-mail messages than spam
You only stay at hotels with broadband or with a Starbucks within 3 blocks
People worry about you when you do not post for a day
You’ve started to resemble this guy:

RSS feed tattoo from Flickr user shizhao

For more absurd blogger tattoos, click here. Obsessed with Facebook? In need of a Twittervention? You’re invited too… See you on Friday!